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Patented Jan. 818'84.

UNITED `STATES PATENT OEEIOE.

MELVILLE J. WOOD AND WILLIAM II. BOND, OE ArHENs, MICHIGAN.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of `Letters Patent No. 291,658, dated January 8, 1884.

Application filed August 1, 1983.

T0 all whom, it may concern:

Be itknown that we, MELvILLE J. WOOD and WILLIAM: II.` BOND, of Athens, in the county of Calhoun and State of Michigan, have in- Vented new" and useful Improvements in Pelt Boots; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part" of this specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in the construction of boots of that class in which the upper is made of one piece of leather. In all such construetions, when making a comfortable boot, there has always'been a waste of time and labor in the manufacture of such boots, owing to the sewing of an unnecessary length of seam, ref sulting from the manner in which the patterns are cut, and this is especially noticeablewhen making pelt boots, because these have to be made by hand.

It is the object of this invention to so cut the upper as to leave the least amount of seam to be sewed to complete the boot; and to this end the invention consists in the peculiar manner of cutting the upper, as more fully hereinafter described and then speciiically pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure l is a representation of the pattern by which `the leg and upper portion of the boot are cut. Fig.

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tersection C, and front upper, D. noticed that the sides E and E of the pattern are of substantially the same shape and length and curve outwardly at their lower ends as shown from d to e. This adds to the shape as well as to the comfort of the boot. Itwill also be seen that from the points e to the points f the pattern is perfectly straight. By this method of cutting there isa saving of material, a saving in time in cutting the upper, for there are less sides to the pattern than in any heretofore devised, and said sides are of such a shape as to be quickly and easily cut, and, besides, there is a saving in time in sewing the seam and of material used for the same, for' the sides E and E are of such a shape and length that when the upper is folded these sides come together in such a manner that there is but one seam, as it were-namely, the leg-seam from a to b-and then the shortest possible straight seam down the side of the foot from I) to c.

The sole is sewed or otherwise secured to the upper in any of the many well-known ways which may be most desirable for the character of the boot being manufactured.

Vhat we claim as new is- As an improved article of manufacture, a boot-upper made fromasingle piece of leather having a seam running straight down the center of the front of the leg to a point in the center of the instep, and thence substantially straight down one side of the foot to the sole, as set forth. A

MELVILLE J. WOOD. VILLIAM H. BOND. Witnesses:

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